Forty-seven mineral hot springs near present Hot…
1541 CE
Forty-seven mineral hot springs near present Hot Springs, Arkansas, located along a geologic fault that serves as a conduit for heated. originate as mineralized groundwater percolating upward from great depths in the Earth's crust.
The temperature of the waters averages 143 degrees F (61 degrees C) year round, and the mineral content includes more than twenty chemical compounds.
The medicinal reputation among Native American peoples may be what draws de Soto here in 1541.
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